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Rihanna and Lupita N’yongo attend a Miu Miu show in Paris in March 2014. Some pictures are worth a thousand words. This one, it turns out, was worth a movie deal. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

The internet has given fans the platform to communicate and connect with each other like never before, and now it has once again changed the game by giving fans the opportunity to will a film project into existence.

In 2014, a Tumblr post of Rihanna and Lupita Nyong’o sitting next to each other at a Miu Miu fashion show went viral. Two years later the post reappeared, sweeping the internet once again – this time, however, on Twitter with the idea of a buddy movie starring Rihanna as a con artist scamming men, supported by her best friend and tech whiz, “played” by N’yongo. N’yongo tweeted out that she was game, starting a domino effect. Rihanna agreed to join her, and now thanks to additional twitter suggestions from fans, Ava DuVernay will direct the Issa Rae-written film, which is set to be distributed on Netflix. A timeline has not been released, but Entertainment Weekly announced the project was solidified at Cannes, and Rae’s representatives confirmed the story.